Reading: non-tourist Milton Keynes: soulless
If you were English, you'd know about Milton Keynes.
Reading is part of the UK silicon valley and is really a place of commerce and too many high street pubs and nightclubs. It has character but it's more money than sense and drunk. Milton Keynes is one of the new towns built after the war. Like all new towns, the planning was done by soulless bureaucrats trying to apply social engineering. Miton Keynes is regarded as the ugliest example. It's even got concrete cows.
Why anyone would want to highlight Milton Keynes on a high level map is beyond me (or Bracknell or Slough).
Matthew Greet
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?
- Mark Renton, Trainspotting.
